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...there has been no large group of consistently Republican states comparable to the solid Democratic states. However, there are a few states which have been consistently Republican since 1938, and many more which have shown definite signs of return to Republicanism. Most of them lie in the traditional Republican heartland, the Central States...
Push, Don't Pay. What gives the changeless Bemelmans world its hard-wearing longevity is that it belongs neither to pure fact nor pure fiction. Its borders extend to Palm Beach and Hollywood, but its heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses...
...this final primary, Candidate Taft is on a hotter spot than Candidate Eisenhower. For here, in Taft's Midwest heartland, Taft should win. A defeat in South Dakota would be a blow to Taft...
...today, the U.S.: ¶ Could mount and sustain an intensive atomic attack on the Russian heartland for about two months. «J Could sustain a limited offensive for six months...
...biggest, but perhaps the most significant of all Canadian enterprises now afoot is the St. Lawrence Seaway, a canal system linking the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to enable all but the biggest deep-sea vessels to sail upstream into North America's industrial heartland. This project has been pressed and attacked on both sides of the border for more than 50 years. Canada has been anxious to build it; all U.S. Presidents from Coolidge to Truman have advocated it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But the U.S. Congress, hobbled by minority interests (railroads and East Coast shippers...